You know good old GM is reaching when the only thing worth advertising about their new truck is the way a new tailgate opens....

My parents own one with the 3.5L eco boost. This embodies everything a “crossover” should be. It’s wildly useful, the seat height is perfectly set for my senior aged parents to get in and out. It has a decent vantage point across the road... everything other than ground clearance for bad aerodynamics sake. It is a…

I really need to start using my Japanese colleagues in Yokohama for spare parts orders to the US.

I love my Jeep’s UConnect.

I didn’t say I believed the story, but I do believe my long time colleague and rumors being spread.

Our pediatricians office is the same, I am beyond happy about. Insanely our stupid state is a “state of choice” for misinformed morons so any number of places our kids go could be at risk. I just hope by the time our son starts school it’s back like when I was a kid and it was REQUIRED to get vaccines.

A colleague told me stories abound about how far GM will go to protect this horribly guarded secret. Apparently a supplier employee on a flight, unbeknownst to him near a GM manager, was chatting with someone else in generic terms about a delay on the new corvette. The manager apparently reported it, GM found out who…

GET VACCINATED!!! This truly hits home, we have a 3-month old who cannot get the vaccinated yet (US CDC recommends getting at 12 months) and to have to worry about him for a disease that should be wiped off the earth is sickening.

Dealers make money, 2% but they make money. Tesla lost money on it. Clearly they have issues. Dealerships get a bad reputation, but you make a mutual relationship and they treat you better than any faceless corporation would. People just want to shop but if you actually build a relationship they can be great.

From all I heard about these during my many days down at Spartanburg assembly they’re a riot. I’d love to drive one.

Emissions. It’s all about emissions. Open deck blocks are far more emissions friendly due to the need to accurately regulate cylinder temp. More to the point, for stock performance with modern controls open deck is better. You have a larger amount of possible coolant flow to better control cylinder temperatures within…

Regardless of the tortured pseudo acronym of VTEC, in its truest sense to competitors I think we can agree it didn’t really have variable timing. True, the larger cam lobe technically meant it engaged earlier and disengaged later, however it was really just a byproduct of the ramp needed for the lobe for ideal…

Quick correction, VTEC was variable valve lift, it had nothing to do with timing. Honda didn’t actually introduce variable valve timing with VTEC until i-VTEC engines and even then only on the intake cam initially. Despite flying ahead in the 80’s as part of the economic bubble wave, they floundered as the 90’s went…

It’s endemic of Jalopnik these days. It permeates the entire site and pokes and jabs in nearly every article they write. Journalism 101, which the blogosphere clearly never learned, is to not inject personal bias and opinions into reporting. The world would be a much better place without incendiary comments and instead…

Doesn’t mean I can’t ask that be the case.

Except we come here for opinions on cars. I’d just like the old Jalopnik back when they published more articles like David Tracy, wrenching on cars, racing, ahead of debut news, etc.

I’m not arguing that, but it’s fairly evident that you can report on an event in a reasonably unbiased manner. Case in point, would it change the article at all by omitting the final sentence?

4th gear: Will you please just report news and not give us your political opinions. We come here for cars, not politics. I voted for Hillary so my politics aren’t the point here, I’d just be like to be able to escape them when I come here.

I’d love to! When they build one for over 6’ tall people...

Counterpoint - The Wrangler is cool. Whatever you think about some of their demographic no one can argue that a topless, doorless, straight axle in today’s world is anything but cool.